With the help of Mr. Mind and his "floating island," the Nazis are about to take Scotland!
From Captain Marvel Adventures #35 (1944)
Wednesday, October 26, 2016
Paul Revere Rode A Wooley Mammoth?!?
Get ready for a fierce defense against an invasion...and some a lot of gratuitous ethnic stereotyping!
With the help of Mr. Mind and his "floating island," the Nazis are about to take Scotland!
Of course, Billy escapes--seriously, I could make a bundle going back in time to Golden Age Fawcett City and selling tear-proof gags--but the smart worm has a plan to stop Captain Marvel:
Uh-oh!
Not so fast, Mind!
But while he's distracted, the island has landed...and the Panzer invasion of Scotland has begun!!
Well, what can be done?
Dude, if you need him, maybe you shouldn't call him ugly...
I'm, pretty sure my history teachers never told us about this...
And of course, well, it's time to continue the calumny that the Scottish are cheap:
Oh, it's all in good fun--they're our allies!
FACT: A woolly mammoth can totally throw and smash a Nazi tank.
By the way, did we mention that the Scots are cheap?
D'oh!!
From Captain Marvel Adventures #35 (1944)
With the help of Mr. Mind and his "floating island," the Nazis are about to take Scotland!
From Captain Marvel Adventures #35 (1944)
For a moment I thought the comic was hinting that the giant block of ice with a still-living mammoth in it was situated somewhere in Scotland, and that would have really ruined my suspension of disbelief in a story about a magic man in circus clothes fighting an evil nazi caterpillar on a floating island.
ReplyDeleteMaking out that the scots are cheap is one thing, but as a resident of the UK I can tell you that if you describe Scotland, to a scot, as 'english soil' or as part of 'the rest of England', then you're really taking your life in your hands.
What the heck is "hoot mon"? I admit I'm no expert, but to my ear that doesn't sound like Scots, Gaelic, OR cheesey American movie brogue.
ReplyDeleteSF, "Hoots, mon," is an archaic Scottish phrase meaning, "Hey, man." I suspect that no one in Scotland has actually used it in centuries.
ReplyDeleteI have to say, the bizarre portrayal of Scotland aside, that story's not as stupid as it seems. During World War Two, the British government considered using icebergs as aircraft carriers and even did preliminary tests on the idea's viability. As far as I can recall, the success of the D-Day landings meant they never needed to put the scheme into practice. So, the idea of using floating islands as invasion platforms wasn't that detached from reality.
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